Monthly Archives: January 1997

IN RE: DENNIS JOHN SOUSA JUDGMENT OF DISBARMENT This matter came before the Court, Fried, J., presiding on a Petition for Reciprocal Discipline filed by Bar Counsel on August 15, 1996. Upon consideration thereof, it is ORDERED and ADJUDGED that: ...

IN RE: ELLIOTT H. POLLACK MEMORANDUM AND ORDERS December 9, 1996 The Rules for Disciplinary Enforcement of this Court, Local Rule 83.6, impose an affirmative obligation on members of our bar to inform the Court regarding professional discipline to which ...

IN THE MATTER OF WALTER R. MAY JUDGMENT This matter came before the court, Abrams, J., presiding, on an information filed by the Board of Bar Overseers on August 14, 1996. On consideration thereof, and after hearing, it is ORDERED ...

By Aaron Grossman Now there’s a quick and reliable way to swap information and ideas with other trial lawyers, search brief banks and deposition banks, and read online publications. These services are on the World Wide Web courtesy of the ...

By William V. Hovey Eleven short years ago, mortgage foreclosure procedures were radically changed by Bankruptcy Judge Lavien’s guidelines in In re Ruebeck, 55 B.R. 163. These guidelines, which we then followed to insure the Bankruptcy Court would not invalidate ...

Joseph C. Ryan, 82 Joseph C. Ryan, a retired patent attorney for Sylvania Electric Products, has died. He was 82. A graduate of Boston College and its law school, Ryan joined Sylvania’s law department in 1939 as a patent attorney ...

New Associations Jeffrey A. Levinson has joined the Boston firm of Finnegan, Hickey, Dinsmoor & Johnson, concentrating in corporate law. A graduate of Harvard College and Boston University School of Law, class of 1992, Levinson was previously associated with Choate, ...

“There are only two places where people give up control over their own destiny – on the operating table and in court. A judge who does not recognize that terror is a menace.” –Ipswich attorney Allen G. Swan at his ...

We all have different ways of passing the time during power outages that hit during the stormy winter months. For the first few hours lighting a fire or playing a little candlelight monopoly usually does the trick. But after three ...